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Michael Linders was born in Zurich Switzerland in 1983 and moved with his family to Johannesburg in 1987.
Linders’ work has an overt and defining relationship to prior experiences. It functions as a visual divination of the cultural signifiers and social landscapes of a particular period in his life and presents itself as a disjunctive construction of identity and visual language, a visual language which incorporates both graphic imagery and colour field experiences. In this way Linders takes stock of a period of visual influence that shaped him. He currently lives and works in Cape Town.
Solo Exhibitions
2018
I DON’T KNOW, Kalashnikovv Gallery, Johannesburg
2015
Exile, SMITH, Cape Town
2012
Minor Riot, Blank Projects, Cape town.
2010 “A Brief History”, Wolves, Johannesburg.
2005 “Somewhere” at the Alliance Française, Johannesburg.
Group Exhibitions
2016 “Out of Nowhere”, SMITH, Cape Town
2016 "From Whence They Came", SMITH, Cape Town.
2010 "99c", Platform, Pretoria.
2006 “New Suburbia”, Platform on 18th, Pretoria.
Art Fairs
2017 Cape Town Art Fair, Unframed, "King of My Castle", represented by SMITH.
2016 FNB Joburg Art fair, "Oh Ok", represented by SMITH.